(just a place for me to keep some easy to reference passages - when I find some more time, I hope to include all Carthaginian naval activity during the war)

These are just some of the passages in Livy that reveal a number of naval operations and landings of forces from Africa during the war.

Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian commander, did not feel himself strong enough in either arm, and kept himself safe by taking up strong positions at a distance from the enemy; until, in...

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Take a look if you want. There isn't much there at the moment, but there is a blurb!

These are some of my thoughts on the old debate made in this thread:

http://www.historum.com/ancient-hist...al-caesar.html

Hannibal's youngest brother, Mago, was born in 239-240 BC and arrived in Spain at the age of thirteen. He probably accompanied Hannibal in his early Spanish campaigns between 221-219 BC, before setting off with his brother for the invasion of Italy in 218 BC.

Mago took part in Hannibal's early victories at the Ticinus, Victumulae, Trebia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae, and it was only after Cannae that we get to see Mago in...

Hasdrubal Barca was one of Hannibal Barca's brothers, and is said to have been about three years younger than Hannibal, thus putting his date of birth around 244 BC. He came across from Africa with his brother-in-law, also called Hasdrubal, at probably around the age of ten or eleven to start training under his father Hamilcar's tutelage in the arts of warfare and leadership. By the end of 229 BC, Hasdrubal Barca was campaigning with his...